The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and AnecdotesDalton, Charles
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The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes
Dalton, Charles
Great Britain. Army -- Registers; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
[13] James Young, Adjt., W. 25 May, 1808 │
[14] Hugh Andrew Fraser, W. 8 Feb. 1809 │
[15] John Malcolm 14 Dec. 1809 │
[16] Alexander Dunbar, W. 25 Jan. 1810 │
[17] James Brander, W. 2 May, 1811 │
[18] Roger Stewart 11 July, 1811 │
[19] Robert Gordon, K. 29 Aug. 1811 │
[20] James Robertson 10 Oct. 1811 │
[21] Kenneth McDougall 12 Feb. 1812 │
[22] Donald McKay 28 May, 1812 │
[23] Alexander Innes 15 Oct. 1812 │
[24] John Grant 18 Feb. 1813 │
[25] John Orr, W. 29 Apr. 1813 │
[26] George Gunn Munro, W. 10 June, 1813 │
ENSIGNS. │
[27] George Gerard, K. 29 Apr. 1813 │
[28] Wm. Fraser, W. 10 June, 1813 │
[29] A.L. Fraser, W. 23 Sept. 1813 │16 Sept. 1813
[30] Alexander Brown 25 Dec. 1813 │
[31] Alexander Cumming 17 Feb. 1814 │
QUARTERMASTER. │
[32] Donald McIntosh, W. 9 July, 1803 │
SURGEON. │
[33] Swinton McLeod 9 July, 1803 │
ASSISTANT-SURGEONS. │
[34] Donald Macpherson 1 June, 1809 │
[35] John Stewart 20 July, 1809 │4 May, 1809
_Facings blue._ _Lace gold._
Footnote 1:
The death of Sir R. Macara at Quatre Bras was inexpressibly sad. “He
was wounded about the middle of the engagement, and was in the act of
being carried off the field by four of his men, when a party of French
unexpectedly surrounded and made them prisoners. Perceiving by the
colonel’s decorations that he was an officer of rank they immediately
cut him down with his attendants.” His relations obtained Macara’s
Waterloo medal, which was for long in the Tancred Collection. A
touching poem to Robert Macara’s memory is to be found in the
_Waterloo Memoirs_; the following are the last three verses of a pæan
of praise sung by the Goddess of Fame:—
“Here the Goddess ceased her lay;
Weak, her wings refused to fly;
Faint, her voice forbore to say
How Macara dared to die.
“Be it, then, to friendship giv’n
Such a warrior’s name to save,
While ’tis borne on breeze of heav’n
That he found a soldier’s grave.
“By unequal hosts oppos’d,
Still he proved his valour true;
For his bright career was clos’d
On the plains of Waterloo!”
Footnote 2:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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